“I wanted to be able to tell my story directly to someone without couching it in theory, history, the sociological . . . Why pretend I am worth more in some context? Why can’t I just tell my story?” An interview with Porochista Khakpour. | Tin House

A profile of crime novelist Zhou Haohui, who worked as an engineering professor until 2007, when he began publishing, online, the trilogy that earned him a cult following in China. | The New York Times

“The rain had been falling with a pounding meanness, without ceasing for two days, and then the water rose all at once in the middle of the night . . . “ Read an excerpt from Southernmost by Silas House. | Oxford American

“I spent the first 19 years of my life defending my virginity!” Hannah Pittard goes where many of us won’t: a conversation with her mom, about sex. | Lit Hub